English

Half Termly Curriculum Focus:

Poetry - 'Spell of the Air' ~ Elizabeth Jenkins

Fiction - 'Journey to Jo'Burg' by Beverley Naidoo

WB: 8.3.21 

Monday: use commas to mark subordinate clauses - Subordinating clauses powerpoint   -   Subordinating Clause Activity

Tuesday: use powerful verbs - Powerful Verbs power point    -   Powerful verbs activity

Wednesday: plan our suspense story using boxing up -   Boxing Up Power point   -    Boxing Up Plan

Thursday: write the first half of our suspense story - Writing our story power point

Friday: write the second half of our suspense story - Finishing our story power point

Below is the entire book 'Journey to Jo'Burg':

journey-to-joburg-chapter 1

journey-to-joburg-chapter 2

journey-to-joburg-chapters 3 + 4

journey-to-joburg-chapters 5 + 6

journey-to-joburg-chapters 7 - end

Non-Fiction - Biography: Nelson Mandela, 'Long Walk to Freedom'

Focus: 

• use of second person
• facts and statistics
• adjectives

Grammatical Terminology:  subordinate clause, pronoun, adverb and preposition

Grammar Examples

Spelling Shed:     There will be assignments set each week on Spelling Shed.

Year 4 have joined a free library called Epic.

The books are online and free to read with thousands to choose from. There is an excellent collection of non-fiction books too including many on our Africa topic. Use the search bar and a keyword to help you find a particular book or subject. You can also access videos and audio books.

Click on the link for the Epic website.

Your class code can be found on your Seesaw page. 

Enjoy searching the thousands of books, the more books you read, the more badges you collect. 

Well Done to the children who have already started reading.

Science - Sound

Sound

• understand different ways of making sound
• investigate how sounds travel
• explore how we can make instruments louder or quieter
• understand how pitch can be changed
• understand how the volume of a sound changes as the distance from the source increases
• investigate how we can muffle sounds

WB: 8.3.21 

Investigate how sounds travel: Lesson 2 How do sounds travel power point  -  How your ears work video   -    Ear Diagram

Topic - Africa

This term our topic has a geography focus.  We will be learning about Africa:

• Rivers
• Rivers Congo and Zambezi
• Mountains
• Mount Kilimanjaro
• Kenya
• Masaii People

DT/Art

Termly Curriculum Focus: African Art 

• Create a sunset by blending paints together.
• Add silhouettes to our sunset paintings.
• Research and design an African mask
• Use modelling techniques to create the mask
• Paint your African mask
• Create a close up painting of animal skin.
• Design and create an African drum. 

            Religious Education

 Following on from the Five lessons on Buddhism during Home Learning, we will have two further lessons to complete this area of study in RE.

-What is life like inside a Buddhist monastery?

-Who is the Dalai Lama?

Below are links to useful websites to support your child's learning further. Don't forget there are lots more web links on the Parent Hub page.

 Reading: Oxford Owl     This is free to sign up and gives you access to many of the same reading books your child would read on                          the reading  scheme at school.

  Maths:  nrich      This site provides lots of challenge activities such as problem solving for children to really think about.

Science: This site regularly updates to provide home learning resources to support curriculum science topics. 

   Art: Each week the children's author and illustrator, Rob Biddulph uploads a draw-with-me video showing you how to

                                          draw all sorts of different characters. Click on the link to see all the videos he's uploaded so far and get creative!

    All subjects: There are lots of videos and activities covering many curriculum subjects and all ages.

   All subjects: There are home learning packs for Year 4 as well as hundreds of activities and Powerpoints covering a                                                    huge variety of curriculum topics for all ages.

Library :

                    To access Reading Cloud, click here.